US6082562A - Bridge crane - Google Patents
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B66—HOISTING; LIFTING; HAULING
- B66C—CRANES; LOAD-ENGAGING ELEMENTS OR DEVICES FOR CRANES, CAPSTANS, WINCHES, OR TACKLES
- B66C9/00—Travelling gear incorporated in or fitted to trolleys or cranes
- B66C9/16—Travelling gear incorporated in or fitted to trolleys or cranes with means for maintaining alignment between wheels and track
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- the invention relates to a bridge crane comprising at least one main girder, a trolley moving on the main girder or at least one hoist gear fixed to the main girder, end carriages arranged at the ends of the main girder to support the main girder, wheels arranged to the end carriages intended to move along substantially parallel rails substantially parallel to the end carriages and on the other hand substantially transverse in relation to the main girder and thus to support the entire crane on said rails, while slide means have been arranged between one end carriage and the corresponding end of the main girder allowing a longitudinal movement of said end carriage in relation to the main girder and a rotation of said end carriage and main girder in relation to each other, and stop means have been arranged between the main girder and the end carriage to restrict the movement between the end carriage and main girder.
- the rail track may be indeterminate or variable, especially on tracks located outdoors or on tracks arranged in halls with a flexible framework.
- the rail track of a crane may change due to changes in temperature, especially in cranes located outdoors.
- the crane may also have to be built in conditions where the direction of all rail wheels cannot be guaranteed to be within tolerances.
- a bridge crane of the invention which is mainly characterized by slide means comprising a base plate attached to the top surface of the end carriage, a top plate attached to the bottom surface of the main girder, and slide means between the base plate and the top plate; and by stop means comprising pin means attached to the base plate and slot means attached to the top plate.
- the invention is thus based on the idea of arranging one of the joints between the bridge crane's main girder and end carriage to be flexible or to slide so as to allow the main girder to move longitudinally and to rotate in relation to the end carriage so that when the crane moves along the rails, the variations in form and dimension caused by the reasons mentioned above can be compensated for.
- the second end carriage which is joined to the main girder with a traditional fixed joint, alone guides the direction of the crane according to its rail.
- the joint of the invention is intended for use in any bridge crane, in one-main girder and two main girder cranes as well as in cranes provided with torsion trolleys.
- the end carriage may, for instance, have 2, 4, 6, or 8 wheels.
- the joint is suitable for both new cranes and cranes to be modernised.
- the end carriage of the bridge crane that has been provided with the joint of the invention, is self-directing. If the wheels of the end carriage are parallel, once the end carriage has settled in the direction of the track, it runs continuously in this direction and hardly ever touches the rail with its flanges. This means that the flanges of the wheels and the sides of the rails wear very little. As the wear of the rail bearing surface is mainly caused by the "grinding" of a deflected wheel, this, too, will be substantially diminished, because the wheels run straight, the rotation axis of the wheel being in perpendicular alignment with the running direction of the wheel almost all the time.
- the end carriage turns and slides sideways until it is again aligned in the main direction of the track.
- the slot clearance of the wheel can be chosen according to the estimated "twisting margin" required in a channel formed by consecutive wheels so that the flange contact need not turn the crane according to every rail bend. Where a slot clearance of 20 to 30 mm was earlier required, now a less than a 10-mm clearance can be used. With extremely good and straight tracks, even a 5-mm slot clearance can be recommended, as sometimes used with guide rollers.
- the pin means comprise two upward extending pins attached to the base plate and the slot means comprise an elongated opening in the top plate, in which a slide piece has been fitted with a section extending inside the opening and having a length shorter than the opening length by the allowed longitudinal main girder movement and having a width corresponding substantially to the width of the opening yet allowing a reciprocal longitudinal movement, shoulders extending to the top edges of the opening, a first round hole substantially equal in diameter to the diameter of the first pin, through which the first pin has been directed, and a second elongated, for instance, oblong, hole through which the second pin has been directed so that it can move sideways in the hole while the pins are locked in the holes with locking nuts attached to the ends of the pins.
- FIG. 1 shows a bridge crane provided with one main girder from below the rails along which the crane moves;
- FIG. 2 shows a preferred joint of the invention in an exploded view
- FIG. 3 shows a view similar to FIG. 2 except rollers instead of slide blocks are utilized.
- FIG. 1 shows a bridge crane of the invention comprising a main girder 1, a trolley 2 moving on the main girder 1 or at least one hoist gear fixed to the main girder, end carriages 3 and 4 arranged at the ends of the main girder 1 to support the main girder 1, and wheels 5 arranged to the end carriages and intended to move along rails 6 and 7 substantially parallel to the end carriages 3 and 4 and on the other hand substantially transverse in relation to the main girder 1 and thus to support the entire crane on said rails 6 and 7.
- the means allowing said movements comprise slide means fitted to the main girder 1 and the end carriage 4 as well as stop means fitted between the main girder 1 and the end carriage 4 to restrict the longitudinal movement of the main girder 1 to a certain length and the rotation between the end carriage 4 and the main girder 1 to a certain angle, and which means are described in the following with reference to FIG. 2.
- the slide means comprise a base plate 10 attached to the top surface of the end carriage 4 and a top plate 11 attached to the bottom surface of the end 9 of the main girder 1 working together with the base plate 10.
- slide blocks 12 have been attached to the top plate 11 and oil or grease-filled trays 13 have been arranged to the base plate 10, in which trays the slide blocks can move within the limits defined by the stop means described next.
- the trays 13 are, however, not essential to the operation of the slide system, as self-lubricating slide blocks also exist.
- the stop means comprise two upward extending pins 14 and 15 attached to the base plate 10, an elongated opening 16 in the top plate 11, and a slide piece 17 fitted to the opening 16 with a section 17a extending inside the opening 16 having a length A shorter than the opening 16 length B by the allowed longitudinal main girder 1 movement and having a width corresponding substantially to the width of the opening 16 yet allowing a reciprocal longitudinal movement, shoulders 17b extending to the top edges of the opening 16, a first round hole 18 substantially equal in diameter to the diameter of the first pin 14, through which the first pin 14 has been directed, and a second oblong hole 19 through which the second pin 15 has been directed so that it can move sideways in the hole 19, while the pins 14 and 15 are locked in the holes 18 and 19 with locking nuts 20 attached to the ends of the pins.
- Sections 17a and 17b can also be separate pieces, in which case the oblong hole 19 is absolutely required only in the lower section 17a.
- the hole 19 could, in principle, also be a rectangle or a large circle, but this would not be as good and strong a structure as the one mentioned above.
- the slide blocks on the top plate 11 can also be replaced by rollers.
- a typical slide margin in the direction of the main girder 1 in the above-mentioned joint is approximately 50 mm and the rotation approximately 0.1 rad.
- the joint is intended to function so that in normal situations, the limiters of the sliding movements are not met. Thus no counter forces are created to the limiters; transverse movement or rotation is resisted only by friction force which has been minimized by an appropriate selection of material and continuous lubrication in a grease bath.
- the fact that the limiters are not met, is managed by other rigidity of the crane and an appropriate selection of the nominal rail track.
- the limiters have also been arranged to prevent the joint from opening in any accident or emergency and the main girder 1 from falling off the end carriage 4.
- the limiters have been designed in such a way that the joint shall in extreme conditions endure the same horizontal forces and force couples directed to the bearing wheels 5 as the traditional fixed joints.
- the present invention affects the design of the rails 6 and 7 in such a way that if only cranes provided with the joint of the invention are run on them, the sleeper of the rail (in this case, rail 7) under the slide joint can be designed for smaller horizontal forces corresponding to the friction forces of the slide joint. A smaller sleeper is enough. This is good to know for modernisations where crane loads are upgraded.
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